Beetle Bailey - Mort Walker

Hand sketch on cover by cartoonist Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey.

Private Beetle Bailey
Sergeant 1st Class Orville P. Snorkel
Chaplain Staneglass
Sergeant 1st Class Louise Lugg
Bammy
Major Greenbrass
Ozone
Lieutenant Jackson Flap
Snake Eyes
Fireball
Canteen
Big Blush
Cosmo
Moocher
Dawg
Private PlatoPrivate Plato
Other link: Comic FDC: Mort Walker - Beetle Bailey

Dennis the Menace - Hank Ketcham

Hand sketch on cover by cartoonist Hank Ketcham, creator of Dennis the Menace. The comic is now written and drawn by Ketcham's former assistants, Marcus Hamilton and Ron Ferdinand.

Other link: Comic FDC: Dennis the Menace

Blondie - Dean Young

Hand sketch on cover by cartoonist Dean Young, who inherited Blondie from his father Chic Young.

Agnes - Tony Cochran

Marmaduke - Brad Anderson

USA 1992-2004 Happy New Year!

This set of 12 Happy New Year stamps from USA were designed by Clarence Lee from Honolulu, Hawaii.

In 1992, Lee was asked to design a New Year stamp commemorating the contributions of Chinese-Americans in the USA. The stamp depicts a Chinese paper cutting of a Rooster (which symbolises the Year of the Rooster in Chinese Lunar Calendar) was released on Dec 30 1992. Following the overwhelming success of this stamp release, the US Postal Service commissioned Lee to design the next 11 stamps of the series. The Rooster stamp marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year stamp series, with Monkey the last in the series (released on Jan 13, 2004).

To close this award-winning stamp series, a Souvenir Sheet featuring all 12 individual New Year stamps (37¢) was released on Jan 6, 2005.

First day covers and stamp sheets here signed by the stamp designer, Clarence Lee.